June 30, 2006

The Arts & Academe

By SARA LIPKA and PAULA WASLEY

Professional filmmakers might not expect their amateurish student assignments to be plucked from oblivion and projected onto a big screen at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. But for many alumni of the California Institute of the Arts, that prospect has become a reality.

"Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures" features more than 200 student films — from two-minute animated shorts to long-format documentaries — in a series that opened last month and runs